Knitting for my daughter is my favorite knitting. Kids are smaller, can wear bright and fun colors and are generally cute in anything you put them in. Last week I talked about knitting for babies. This week I thought about telling you what you need to…
Category: Yarning
Knitting for babies
I just love knitting for babies. I think it is to make up for the fact that when I had my daughter I hadn’t learned to knit yet. My grandmother knit 4 wrap around cardigans and some booties. I was also gifted a blanket from my…
Rainbow yarn
I got two balls of Knit Picks Felici in Rainbow I have used it before to make: Socks Fingerless Mittens And pencil sleeves To say that I loved it would be an understatement. I did a little Ravelry searching and found some gorgeous projects made with…
What to knit with a single skein of handdyed sock yarn?
I have four very beautiful skeins of hand dyed yarn. So beautiful in fact, that I am having trouble winding them into balls, let alone knitting them up. But, at the end of the day it is just yarn, right? Right? Just say it is. I…
Sometimes you just need to do things a little differently
I have been taking it easy and loving it. I finally finished the Yarn Harlot’s the Secret life of knitters. As is expected from her it was funny, touching and just the thing I needed to read. I love how she talks about knitting, life and…
Productive Weekend
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Yasmin Gamal (@jessyzz) I made some a woven hotpad. It is quite easy. Just cut 4 square of felt into strips, weave every two squares together, sew them down then sew the two woven squares together. …
The time has come to …
… finally cast on the Vitamin D cardigan by Heidi Kirrmaier. I originally wanted to knit this back in May of 2012. I purchased the yarn and it arrived in June. I was so busy at the time that I never had a chance to cast…